Ten ESSENTIAL Slideshare Presentations for Marketers
Feb 19, 12:12 am PST
Check out this compilation of 10 awesome SlideShare presentations for marketing folks. This has been published on DPDialogue, an Australian marketing blog.. go here to check out the blogpost.
Incidentally the post starts with this somewhat funny narrative of what things were like in presentation rooms way back in the 1960s-70s before the PC (and Powerpoint era)… Here’s an excerpt
” The presenter would have prepared for weeks; researched diligently and practiced five times the night before, just to make sure everything went according to plan. No stone would have been left unturned. No ‘t’ would have been un-crossed. No ‘i’ left un-dotted.
Presentation day would have arrived. Seats would have been arranged. A screen erected at the front. The presenter would have turned up, ready to begin; a glass of water beside the lecturn; a hot cup of instant coffee on standby.
Marker pens would have been in hand, ready to highlight the important points; a few carefully-practised hand shadow animals would have lurking in the wings, ready to storm the virtual stage should the crowd require some half-time entertainment. A strange bunch of clear plastic sheets would have been piled neatly on the table, but they would have drawn negligible attention, because they were dwarfed by the strangest looking lamp the admin assistant had ever seen. The year was 1957.
“What’s that?” She would have asked (excuse my misogyny, I’ve been watching too much Mad Men).
“It’s an overhead projector,” the presenter would have announced proudly. “It’s the latest in presentation technology.”
The admin assistant would have nodded.
“Is there anything I can get you then before you begin, Mr Presenter?” She would have asked
“Yes,” Mr Presenter would have said. “I need a power point?”
“Power point?” She would have asked, a puzzled look on her face. “Well, there is one, but it’s way over there in the back of the room. If you want people to see your presentation I’ll need to get you an extension cord.”
Powerpoint, of course, the Microsoft version, spelled the end of the overhead projector back in the early nineties.
Slideshare.com, has spelled the end of the extension cord.
Travelling to China? Want to learn Chinese? Check out these slidecasts…
Feb 17, 09:49 pm PST
We just discovered an excellent Slidecasting series on Travel to China (and Chinese language lessons). This is from a Chinese portal called Travel Chinese Online.
Check out the slidecasts they have created. They are excellently crafted and do justice to the task at hand… the voice-over is loud and clear, the text/fonts are big/bold and the images are crisp.
Have you seen other compelling examples of sldiecasting usage? Do let us know in the comments.
New Delhi SlideShare Tweetup on Monday, 5 Jan 2009 at 6:00 PM
Dec 27, 10:50 pm PST
This is an open invitation to all Delhi based SlideShare users and Twitterers to drop by our modest office on Jan 5th for an informal openhouse. On the agenda for the evening are snacks, gossip, socializing, geek-talk, startup-cribs, recession grief-tales and all other things of that ilk. Students, startup entrepreneurs, UX folks, designers, developers, bloggers - all are welcome. The idea is to meet in an informal setting and network.
For more details and registration for the event, please click here.
(P.S. Wi-Fi Internet connection will be available at the venue. Kindly register in advance as the venue can host only a limited number of participants.)
SlideShare: One million registered users! (& congrats ThinkPublic: you are our millionth user)
Dec 12, 12:37 am PST
You read that right! SlideShare now has over one million registered users as of the 24th of November.
A big shout out to the awesome community that has grown around SlideShare for making this possible. Honestly, this would not have been possible without the support and participation of all our users.
And of course, thanks and congratulations to ThinkPublic, our millionth registered user!
Here’s looking to 10 million!
SlideShare gets a mention in the Financial Times
Dec 1, 05:53 am PST
The Financial Times, one of the most widely read business and financial newspapers in the world carried a story on how “Companies woo investors with social websites.”
The story quoted a report as saying that “companies are increasingly turning to social media sites such as Wikipedia, YouTube and SlideShare to communicate with investors”
We’re thrilled not only to be covered by the FT, but also because the story confirms our long held gut feelings. The report went on to say that about half of the 150 largest companies in Europe put presentations on SlideShare, photos on Flickr and videos on YouTube. The report also said that most people looked beyond the corporate sites for information and the new user generated content sites were the first places they looked.
So, if you want to make that great first impression on your customers, there’s no better time to upload your presentations to SlideShare! 
A collaborative presentation via Twitter!
Nov 25, 06:39 am PST
We really love it when people come up with great new ways to use SlideShare! This presentation on social media and non-for-profit organisations was created for an NFPtweetup.
The really cool part? It was created by co-ordinating over Twitter and the final version was presented at the NFPtweetup. Read more about the meet up and the slideshow on their wiki.
Also, check out other collaborative presentations on SlideShare: Presentation Design Tennis and Freesouls-100.
R.I.P. Good times? Not necessarily!
Oct 20, 05:13 am PST
The now (in)famous Sequoia Capital presentation has led to a lot of discussion and introspection across the start up world.
Not everyone agrees though and here’s a different perspective on that same issue.
Presentations from the Startonomics conference
Oct 2, 04:27 pm PST
Since the startonomics conference is using SlideShare, its really easy to put all the presentations from the conference into one. Take a look below. If you run a conference, then make a Presentation pack for your conference. Go to the widgets page on SlideShare [http://www.slideshare.net/widgets] to get started.
